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Message-Id: <1232488507.6794.8.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Tue, 20 Jan 2009 21:55:07 +0000
From:	Adrian McMenamin <adrian@...golddream.dyndns.info>
To:	Adrian McMenamin <lkmladrian@...il.com>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Paul Mundt <lethal@...ux-sh.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-sh <linux-sh@...r.kernel.org>, penberg@...helsinki.fi,
	dbaryshkov@...il.com, penguin-kernel@...ove.sakura.ne.jp
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dma: fix up broken comparison in
 dma_alloc_from_coherent

On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 21:48 +0000, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> Currently this code compares a size in bytes with a size in pages.
> This patch makes both sides of the comparison bytes.

Apologies, here it is without the line wrap.

Currently this comparison is made between bytes and pages. This patch
ensures it is bytes on both side of the comparison.

Signed-off-by: Adrian McMenamin <adrian@...en.demon.co.uk>
---

--- a/kernel/dma-coherent.c
+++ b/kernel/dma-coherent.c
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ int dma_alloc_from_coherent(struct device *dev, ssize_t size,
 	mem = dev->dma_mem;
 	if (!mem)
 		return 0;
-	if (unlikely(size > mem->size))
+	if (unlikely(size > mem->size << PAGE_SHIFT))
  		return 0;
 
 	pageno = bitmap_find_free_region(mem->bitmap, mem->size, order);

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